On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:59 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:40 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:30 +0800, coly li wrote:
> > > Hi, once we decide to do this, how about storing inode inside the
> > > directory ?
> >
> > Which directory?
> I think Coly is refering to the idea of
> store-inode-inside-in-directory-file.
>
> It's one way to implement the dynamic inode table allocation. With it
> you don't have system-wide inode tables anymore, but all inode
> structures are directly stored in the directory file.
Assuming you mean the parent directory? An inode isn't tied to a
specific parent.
ln dir1/file1 dir2/
mv dir1/file1 dir3/
rmdir dir1
What is happens to the inode? I really don't think that the directory
is the right place to store an inode.
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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